Perception results are presented that address the role of Lombard speech in auditory and audiovisual speech perception. Basically, visual enhancement neutralizes the advantage of Lombard speech observed for auditory perception. It remains an open question whether or not Lombard speech is preferable for perception studies of speech in noise.

A large nurober of investigations have been undertaken to develop technical systems in order to enable a tactile substitution of speech for the deaf. These aids have been evaluated with various experimental procedures (identification and discrimination tests, learning experiments, tracking procedures and other overt behaviour methods). In order to find additional evidence for the processing and...

PURPOSE To determine whether specific sentence recognition assessments were sensitive enough to serve as objective outcome measurements that document subjective improvements in speech understanding with hearing aids. METHOD The Revised Speech Perception in Noise test (R-SPIN; R. C. Bilger, J. M. Nuetzel, W. M. Rabinowitz, & C. Rzeczkowski, 1984), the Hearing in Noise Test (HINT; M. Nilsson, S...

Three forward models are presented that map articulatory positions onto acoustic outputs for a single speaker of the MOCHA speech database. Backpropagation learning was used to train the forward models on a database of 460 TIMIT sentences. Efficacy of the trained models was assessed by subjecting the model outputs to speech intelligibility tests. The results of these tests showed that enough ph...

The present paper understands prosodic phrases as units which take part in constituting the rhythmical structure of speech. Due to very subjective and inconsistent criteria for the prosodic phrase perception there must be an objectively underlain method for prosodic phrase assignment. This has been achieved by extensive listening tests (103 participants) and statistical evaluation of the acquir...

In a large auditorium, perceiving speech may become difficult. One reason that reverberation degrades speech intelligibility is the effect of overlap-masking (Bolt and MacDonald, 1949; Nabelek and Robinette, 1978). Reverberation is a more critical issue for elderly people to perceive speech than it is for young people (Fitzgibbons and Gordon-Salant, 1999). Arai et al. suppressed steady-state po...

Much crosslinguistic research exists on the production and perception of voice onset time (VOT). However, most research on the perception of VOT uses synthetic stimuli instead of natural speech stimuli. Effects of synthetic speech on the perception of VOT are not known, but more research needs to be done to see if there are differences between perception using synthetic speech and perception us...

Research into how speech production and perception are related has a long history. Proponents of the motor theory of speech perception argued in the sixties that speech sounds are perceived in terms of the articulatory features or gestures required to produce those sounds (Liberman et al., 1967; Liberman, 1996). The prediction was that infants, who do not yet produce speech sounds, would have d...

Although activity in premotor and motor cortices is commonly observed in neuroimaging studies of spoken language processing, the degree to which this activity is an obligatory part of everyday speech comprehension remains unclear. We hypothesised that rather than being a unitary phenomenon, the neural response to speech perception in motor regions would differ across listeners as a function of ...